New & recommended: The life and death of Sophie Stark by Anna North

“If The Girl on the Train was the woman of 2015, then Sophie Stark is this year’s model. Anna North’s new novel, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark , has been a hit in America, with Lena Dunham describing its protagonist as a “totally unforgettable female antihero”. Out now – soon every girl on every train will be reading it” Sunday Times

“Who is the real Sophie Stark? The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is the story of an enigmatic film director, told by the six people who loved her most. Brilliant, infuriating, all-seeing and unknowable, Sophie Stark makes films said to be ‘more like life than life itself’. But her genius comes at a terrible cost: to her husband, to the brother she left behind, and to an actress who knows too much. With shades of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves , A Visit from the Goon Squad and Where’d You Go, Bernadette , it combines a uniquely appealing sensibility with a compulsively page-turning plot.”